IRVING, Texas -- Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the NFL's owners meetings that the league would spend the next few months exploring playoff expansion.

"Of course, something that we discussed in the past is expanded playoffs. That is something that we teed up (at the meeting Wednesday)," he said. "We will probably be looking at it with the committee over the next several months. Right now, we are at 12 teams, obviously. We will look at probably 14 or 16. The committee will be looking at that."

The NFL and MLB playoffs are the best of the pro sports because not ******* over or about 50% of the league gets in. It's actually an accomplishment to get in as a wild card team vs an 8th seed NBA team that gets blasted in a 4 game sweep.

This is not just Roger Goodell and the owners. The players and coaches have a say in this too, and many of them may like the idea of more money in the big pot. Let's not pretend it's only the owners that will gain financially from more games. Too many people like to ignore that the players and coaches have a say in overall NFL business.

In all fairness though, we should compliment the NFL on its creativity:

"We want more money! Let's add more teams all over the planet, more regular season games, more playoff games, etc. More, more, more!"

The only way I am okay with playoff expansion is if they get two more teams. Which probably isn't happening any time soon.

Everything about this is wrong. The NFL should definitely not expand. If anything contracting two teams would be better. And even if they did expand,, adding more playoff spots would still dilute it too much.

I quite like the way the top sports in Australia have been running their finals recently. Kind of difficult to extrapolate when you have 2 conferences, but I'll explain any way just to give a different point of view.

Round 1
1v4
2v3
5v8
6v7

Winner of 1/4, 2/3 goes straight to the semi-final and has home field. Winner of 5v8/6v7 play the losers of the 1v4/2v3 games who have the home field advantage.

Round 2 and beyond

It's fairly straight forward after that. The two winners in Round 2 move on to face the winners from the 1v4/2v3 games from Round 1. Then come the final.

I quite like the way the top sports in Australia have been running their finals recently. Kind of difficult to extrapolate when you have 2 conferences, but I'll explain any way just to give a different point of view.

Round 1
1v4
2v3
5v8
6v7

Winner of 1/4, 2/3 goes straight to the semi-final and has home field. Winner of 5v8/6v7 play the losers of the 1v4/2v3 games who have the home field advantage.

Round 2 and beyond

It's fairly straight forward after that. The two winners in Round 2 move on to face the winners from the 1v4/2v3 games from Round 1. Then come the final.

That actually is pretty interesting. Probably would take too long for NFL, but I do kinda like it.

That actually is pretty interesting. Probably would take too long for NFL, but I do kinda like it.

I like it because it ensures that the top 4 teams who worked hard all season get a second chance even if they lose their first match in the playoffs. But it's completely different to the NFL. Australian leagues only have 16 teams and no split conferences. Still, I think it is always worth considering alternatives.

Everything about this is wrong. The NFL should definitely not expand. If anything contracting two teams would be better. And even if they did expand,, adding more playoff spots would still dilute it too much.

Sorry but you and I both know that is never happening.

I would rather have the playoffs be harder to get into to make sure only the best get in than make it over 50% of the teams. I understand you're point. It would dilute the regular season. However, I could give a damn about the regular season, as Giants fan sure I would love them to go undefeated but if sneak into the playoffs at 9-7 that's all I really care about. The playoffs would not be so diluted. It is a tradeoff, and a tradeoff that we might be forced to accept.

I really like the 7 team format. Polian made some good points as I was driving to work this morning. First having the 7 team format only one team gets a bye, that only keeps things more interesting at the top and prevents a team from shutting down early unless they are like 13-0 or something. Doing this also gives lower teams more reason to play at the end of the year. A 5-8 team which would at that point ordinarily just put in younger guys while "unintentionally losing" would then have reason to at least be competitve. I just think that format keeps the league more competitve at the end of the year plus it gives space for a year like this in the NFC where one or maybe more teams with 10 win records could miss out on the playoffs.

I really don't want this because the giants already only win as much as they have to. With half the league in the playoffs they'll be able to get in at 7-9 to 9-7, and when we have our first 7-9 superbowl champ everyone's gunna be pissed.

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